The Tragedy of Errors and Others

“ELLERY QUEEN IS THE AMERICAN DETECTIVE STORY.” So wrote the great critic Anthony Boucher about the contributions of Ellery Queen to the mystery story. Queen appeared in novels and short stories, in the movies and on television, on the radio and even in comic books.In honor of the seventieth anniversary of the first Ellery Queen novel, Crippen & Landru is proud to publish the first completely new Ellery Queen book in almost thirty years. The Tragedy of Errors is the lengthy and detailed plot outline for the final, but never published EQ novel, containing all the hallmarks of the greatest Queen novels—the dying message, the succession of false solutions before the astonishing truth is revealed, and scrupulous fairplay to the reader. And the theme is one that Queen had been developing for many years: the manipulation of events in a world going mad by people who aspire to the power of gods.The Tragedy of Errors and Others also contains the six hitherto uncollected Ellery Queen short stories, and a section of essays, tributes, and reminiscences of Ellery Queen, written by family members, friends, and some of the finest current mystery writers.

First edition, including a 17 p supplement titled: selected facsimile pages (loose booklet, stapled) in reduced size of a draft of 'The Tragedy of Eroors' by Ellery Queen. - The 'cloth overrun' copies (with the same ISBN and numbered "0") are not part of the Numbered, Limited Edition. Since this edition and it's supplement were published well after the death of both authors, obviously none of the copies of this Limited Edition can be signed by the author(s), even though the back cover says so. Accompanying each copy is a separately printed pamphlet supplement, reproducing in reduced size original manuscript and typescript pages of The Tragedy of Errors. Published in honor of the 70th anniversary of the first Queen novel it is the first completely new Queen book in almost 30 years. It is the lengthy and detailed plot outline for the final, but never published EQ novel. It also contains the six hitherto uncollected Queen short stories and a section of some 22 essays, tributes and reminiscences by family members, friends and some of the finest current mystery writers. Limited Edition.